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Pump air through from an empty grease gun

light oil to dilute residual grease

Low pressure compressed air to blow the tubes through

It's annoying but only an inconvenience

Edited By Ady1 on 18/05/2022 08:49:49

I have often wondered what the machining solution for these things was but have never seen anything

...The obvious solution was to make a sliding breech block...

Small scale wind power 3 phase is possible

Baylis had a 3 phase wind up torch

Edited By Ady1 on 13/05/2022 13:10:02

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyhedron

**LINK**

I would reckon that with the post pandemic period going straight into a takeover situation subscribers will just have to be patient and wait for the new ME gang to sort themselves out, and that could take a few months

Excellent Bill thankyou

I think I'd be too busy fishing, canoeing and drinking beer at sunset to do much machining

Pictures would help for getting advice

I've welded a few bits on my Drummonds, good quality cast iron seems to be pretty easy to glue together

Might not be Lloyds A1 stuff but it does do the job

Lathes.co.uk may help

A lot of the old boys in here won't visit an unknown site that's in a first post

Putting your pictures in here will get a better response

Emcos or any other postable lathe are totally the way to start off, unimat SL etc

Then spend 6months using it, the dirt, the mess, the swarf in your fingers, the COST of it all

Then you really know where to go at that point, no more chicken and egg situation

1. Stick it in the post and take up birdwatching

2. Upgrade!

Very nice

Interesting to note the solid bronze bearings could do 1300rpm

(and they are BIG)

Edited By Ady1 on 04/05/2022 23:27:17

Hope he's ok

I found a booklet with 88mm details and I think the source site will have a lot of other historical military stuff for those people who are interested in militaria

Edited By Ady1 on 04/05/2022 00:13:11

The people in here know EVERYTHING

Lovely

I got a fleecy "snood" as an xmas present and went out to buy 2 more within a week because they are so good

Wish I'd known about them when I used to hillwalk, been wearing one practically every day since I got it

We don't get much global warming in Jockland

Edited By Ady1 on 28/04/2022 14:06:36

That aluminium chequer plate they glue onto landrovers is pretty tough

Get a 1mm sheet of 5bar and sand it down

Edited By Ady1 on 27/04/2022 23:26:20

If you are using it a lot then good kit will make a huge difference to its efficiency and the pure pleasure of using it

If you're just tinkering now and then, the 1HP+ route is fine

Edited By Ady1 on 27/04/2022 18:26:07

That sounds like the best system to me, read the dir listing to a file handling routine

while dir A >0

open file 1

do stuff

close file 1

loops until the end of the directory

That's a lot of work methinks, but would be great once it was up and running

One caveat may be- can your basic/windows system tolerate a multiple high speed cycle of accessing and editing files

Edited By Ady1 on 27/04/2022 14:14:46

I would think you would need to move the SLOT? bit to a variable string

a$="slot" and then mess with that variable

So you need your file handling command to be capable of opening variables so -

open file a$ needs to work

And then you need to be able to mess with that string, concatenate I believe they call it

cocacenate(a$,b$)

where b$ is the variables bit added on

sounds like fun. ugh

Edited By Ady1 on 27/04/2022 11:36:56

That's a pretty chunky small bench lathe and I'm going to throw my hat in and say 1/3HP isn't enough

I would say 1/2HP minimum and 1HP is bestest

For me with 10" swing I would be looking at 1.0 to 1.5HP

Edited By Ady1 on 27/04/2022 10:34:22

I sometimes get cheap stuff which gives you a lot for your money, and then focus on improving its limitations or use it to create a more useful project

My Lidl bench drill is still sittlng gathering dust for 69 quid but for that money I got a whole bunch of bits

Nearly used one of the triple belt pulleys last year but found an alternative

Pulleys are 20 quid a pop on ebay and that Lidl drill has two triples and a quadruple pulley before you even look at the rest of it